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12 In each city there were shields and spears; he strongly fortified them.[a] Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

13 The priests and Levites who lived throughout Israel supported him, no matter where they resided.[b] 14 The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the Lord’s priests.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 11:12 tn Heb “he strengthened them greatly, very much.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 11:13 tn Heb “and the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel supported him from all their territory.”